Shadow Rider
Creature — Knight
Flanking (Whenever a creature without flanking blocks this creature, the blocking creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.)
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Weatherlight
- Price
- $0.10
- EDHREC rank
- #30003
Shadow Rider is a vanilla 3/1 for three mana with no abilities — the kind of card that gets outclassed by nearly everything in a 100-card format. Run it only if you're building a strict tribal or challenge deck that demands it by name.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Shadow Rider is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but legal doesn't mean playable. In Commander, a 3/1 for three with no text is well below the floor for constructed-quality creatures. Pauper is the only format where raw stats at common occasionally matter, but even there Shadow Rider competes against efficient commons that trade a body for actual text. Legacy and Vintage are non-starters — the power bar is simply too high.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.10 bulk tier
At $0.10, Shadow Rider is deep bulk — the kind of card that fills out a bulk box rather than a deck slot. That price is stable by default, not by demand, and there's no scenario that changes it.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.